Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5 - WD80EFBX

I purchased this drive as a replacement drive on a Western Digital My Cloud NAS, so keeping it in the same manufacturer ecosystem, not that it should matter. The original drive were shucked drives that WD denied warranty, on even though it was purchased within the 2-year warranty.... Shame on me for not taking the hint. After installing the drive, immediately I noticed it ran a little hotter than the other 3 (older) drives. No big deal, its a different build and this drive is tailored for NAS usage, right? Well, unfortunately it only took around 5 months before the there were reported errors. Drive failures happen, and I figured this would quickly be sorted out with an RMA since (retail drive, well within warranty, supported ecosystem.) First, I was disturbed to find that Western Digital charges $25 for advance replacement RMA service, plus the cost of the shipping label on top of it. Begrudgingly, I ponied up for the cost because it kept the RAID volume together until I would have a replacement to rebuild the volume. After waiting over a week without any confirmation from WD, I logged in and say the RMA was pending return. Their support system is totally overwhelmed, and I was never able to get anyone on the phone. After waiting a long while on a support chat, I was told that I should be more patient and the warehouse was unable to ship out any advance replacement drives the past week(?!) On that support chat, I was also required to take screenshots of the failing drive, at which point I noticed a second drive reporting bad sectors; the age of which is about 4.5 years. Enough fooling around. I drove myself to the local shop, paid a premium for replacement drives to have in hand same-day, and get the RAID volume secured. After doing so, I called in to cancel the advance replacement (which they STILL havent managed to refund) and mail this drive in for standard RMA; I guess to keep around as a spare the next time? I have very little faith that something wont go wrong with the standard RMA, or that it will be quick or efficient. I see the writing on the wall with Western Digital support, and its not good!

Needed to upgrade from my 3TB Western Digital Red (WD30EFRX) that was quite long in the tooth and getting full. Used Acronis to clone the drive and transfer roughly 3TB of data. Hottest it got during that 6 hour period was 51°C. Average normal use is 43°C so does not run hot at all despite being in the lower chamber of my Fractal Design Define C case with no direct air cooling. Completely silent even during intense writing and reading. Someone else noted screw holes not being standard but I did not find this at all on the 8TB model. Has all standard screw holes, two on each side and 6 on the bottom.

Avoid this seller like the plague. They sold me a 8TB HDD in a none OEM static free bag, with the HDD label on the outside of the bag. The Serial number did not have a valid Western Digital Warranty. I have bought unknown amounts of WD HDDs through Amazon, and this is unacceptable. This worthless item was returned. Shame on you Seller!

I purchased this drive to add as a second drive to a NAS enclosure to run a RAID 1 configuration for redundancy. Setup couldnt have been easier: I opened the case, slid in the drive, and it was instantly recognized. For the price, you cant beat it. There was a time that a 200MB drive would have cost more than this. I went with this WD Red Plus drive because Ive been using them for years and theyve been extremely reliable. I have two other NAS devices using pairs of Red drives, the oldest has been running flawlessly since 2012, and the other since 2015. Reliability is important, and I have been able to trust these drives.

WD Red HDD are great, this was not an issue with the product itself, but packaging and shipping ! This HDD drive was sent just in the shielding envelope and an Amazon bag. It had obvious signs of impact on all the corners including holes in the shielding envelope. I did not even open to install: everyone with IT background knows you do not throw HDDs around, it needed the original box with end padding and bubble wrap ! I ordered a replacement.

Great hard drive. Unfortunately, upon unboxing, an overwhelming stench of cheap perfume inundated my entire living room. Amazon is using a perfumed sanitizer on ALL products shipped to my house (books, hard drives, SSDs, you name it). It gets on everything and lingers for weeks. I have chemical allergies, so Ill be returning each and every product until this inane practice stops.

I have always liked Western Digital drives. The only drives I had fail before were Seagate ones. So I bought an 8TB WDC drive to be my parity drive in my Unraid server. I am very disappointed with this drive. It is running 10 degrees hotter than the Toshiba data drives in the same enclosure and this is before I even mount and use it while the Toshiba drives are busy saving data. It continually hit high temp errors when I pre-cleared it and I know it will do the same when I actually try to use it for parity. It is also getting UDMA CRC errors. I also bought and external WDC drive and that is also running hot and hitting the high temp error so I have no faith in WDC drives anymore. Unfortunately I just missed my return period by one day so I am stuck with a drive that I dont think I can count on and generate heat that negatively impacts the heat levels of the other drives.

If you are storing your media for home theater this is beyond what you need. Excellent read/write speeds even under a semi heavy user load. I will be buying more of these

The product is of high quality, the delivery is fast, the packaging is good, I managed to buy it for $ 218, now it is on sale for $ 250, which, in my opinion, is too expensive.

Installed on a WD PR4100 NAS. Hard drive works great and seems a tad faster than other WD red drives I own @ 5400 RPM. Tends to run 10-15 degrees warmer.